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The Religious and Spiritual Lives of American TeenagersHere is the definitive story of the religious and spiritual lives of contemporary        American teenagers, revealing that religion is indeed a significant factor in their        lives. This authoritative book reports the findings of the largest and most detailed        such study ever...

Three Roads to SurpriseMargaret Boden presents a series of essays in which she explores the nature of creativity in a wide range of art forms. Creativity is the generation of novel, surprising, and valuable ideas. Boden identifies three forms of creativity (combinational, exploratory, and transformational) each eliciting a different form of...

Since the mid-twentieth century, the field of linguistics has been a tumultuous discipline. The Linguistics Wars tells the story of the acrimonious schism, during the sixties and seventies, that divided the ranks of linguistics after the publication of Noam Chomsky's influental Aspects of the Theory of Syntax. This schism began when some of...

The only book to provide a detailed comparative analysis of existing domestic insolvency laws concerning the opening of insolvency proceedings in the main economically developed and emerging countries, meeting the need for thorough scrutiny of materials not available in English....

Barack Obama's stunning victory in the 2008 presidential election will go down as one of the more pivotal in American history. Given America's legacy of racism, how could a relatively untested first-term senator with an African father defeat some of the giants of American politics? In  The Obama Victory, Kate Kenski, Bruce Hardy, and Kathleen Hall...

The question of who 'we' are and what vision of humanity 'we' assume in Western        culture lies at the heart of hotly debated questions on the role of religion in        education, politics, and culture in general. The need for recovering a greater        purpose for social practices is indicated, for example, by the rapidly...